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Gossips remember that the Earl of Athlone subsisted for years as a "poor relation" of British Royalty. Edward VII disliked him and was niggardly about allowing him to live rent-free in a mean suite of rooms at Windsor Castle. Not until his sister became Queen-Empress did his future really brighten. At present his duty is merely to preside impartially, in the Union of South Africa, over the incessant squabbles of the factions headed by Prime Minister James Barry Munnik Hertzog and famed General Jan Christiaan Smuts...
...Merry Wives of Windsor. Having toured the provinces for several monfhs in their genial reincarnation of Mr. Shakespeare's somewhat fleshly comic strip, Mrs. Fiske and Otis Skinner brought their efforts to Broadway for a limited engagement. Nobody could deny that Mr. Skinner was a sly and waggish Falstaff, nor could anyone suggest to Mrs. Fiske that the time had come for her to retire. All in all, their performance was good enough to make it clear that Shakespeare, when played at all, ought to be played in modern clothes and that a little less roguishness and a little...
...artists, notables for whom the open spaces of Cook country breed only potential victims or competitors; but, in the opinion of the clergy, conditions have reached a parlous state since the last elections, and it is scarcely safer there for a private citizen than it would be for George Windsor...
...elected are: Dean Ewing Christy of New Windsor, Illinois, and Merl Langdon McHenry of Oakland, Call, from the midyear graduating class of 1929. Kenyon Law Starting of Far go, N. D. James Henry Heals Bogman of Washington. D. C. Yonto Aral of Riverside, Conn., and William Edward Boardman of Schenectady, N. Y., from the June graduating class...
Married. Mrs. Rachel Littleton Vanderbilt, recently divorced from Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr.; half-sister of Martin W. Littleton, counsel for the defense on the Fall-Sinclair mistrial at Washington; to Jasper Morgan, of Wheatley Long Island, nephew of J. P. Morgan, at Windsor...